A Year of Gene Hackman: GET SHORTY (1995)
Probably Hackman’s best comedic performance
Gene Hackman is America’s greatest living actor. This is not an opinion, but an objective fact.
In recognition of this truth, I have committed to watching — or rewatching — one of his movies every week for an entire year. I intend to report back with my thoughts and nerdy analysis for each one.
Get Shorty (1995)
Some of you younger readers may not be aware of many stages of John Travolta’s acting career. In fact, if you’re really young, you may not be all that familiar with Travolta at all. Why would you be?
Those of us who have been around a while — let’s say Gen X or earlier — should remember the actor’s mid-career renaissance after his Oscar-nominated performance in Pulp Fiction in 1994. Over the next several years, both audiences and critics took him seriously.
He had a handful of solid hits. A couple performances garnered some Oscar Buzz.
Get Shorty is probably best known as the movie Travolta made right after Pulp Fiction. And, among his movies that came after Pulp…
